BIO

Steven Moore holds a BA in English from the University of Iowa and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Oregon State University. His debut book The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier (University of Georgia Press, 2019) received the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction and has been translated into French. His essay collection The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) explores pop culture, regional history, and the experience of being a coastal transplant from the Midwest. He’s currently working on a book of nonfiction about the music and career of Janet Jackson, forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.

His nonfiction has appeared in Kenyon Review online; The Georgia Review; Iron Horse Literary Review; Ninth Letter; Entropy; War, Literature, and the Arts; North American Review; Southeast Review; DIAGRAM; the anthology Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War; and was named as notable in Best American Essays 2021. He lives in Portland, Oregon.